Monday, August 14, 2006

tHE nEW bEDLAM*

It appears that psychiatry has come full-circle. Psychopharmythology is now the new Bedlam: chemical restraints in place of the head-box, the therapeutic coffin, insulin shock and ECST, hypothermic baths and solitary confinement, a throw back to the Skinnerian age of behavioural modification and operant conditioning.

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